Personalized Learning Summit 2017
Personalized Learning Summit 2017
@edelements #PLSummit
Learner Centered Education: It’s a Paradign Shift
Mr. Jemar Lee, Iowa BIG student & co-creator of EdRevision@jemarrlee
Dr. Trace Pickering, Associate Director, Education Reimagined, Executive Director & Co-Creator of Iowa BIG@edreimagine
bit.ly/PLSWorkshopSurvey
Learner-Centered: It’s a paradigm shift.
Mr. Jemar Lee, Iowa BIG student & co-creator of EdRevision@jemarrlee
Dr. Trace Pickering, Associate Director, Education Reimagined, Executive Director & Co-Creator of Iowa BIG@edreimagined @tracepick@edelements bit.ly/PLSWorkshopSurvey #PLSummit
Connecting Question
What do you most want kids to experience when they are learning?
What matters to you about that?
Vision stakeholders
Johns HopkinsUniversity
David Andrews, Dean
NYC PrincipalRobert O’Brien
KIPP HoustonSchool Leader
Lara Wheatley
MacArthurFoundation
Jen Humke
50CANMarc Magee
Nebraska TeacherMaddie Fennel
NEALily Eskelsen
MicrosoftAndrew Ko
SAISSteve Robinson
Ethica GlobalAlliance
Rehan Dawer
Chief State School Officer RI
Peter MacWaltersAFT
Randi Weingarten
The Nellie MaeFoundationNick Donohue
New ProfitShruti Sehra
DisneyLizabeth Fogel
BlackboardSig Berhens(formerly)
Lego EducationStephan Turnipseed
(formerly)
Jaquelin HumeFoundation
Gisèle Huff
The BrookingsInstitutionStuart Butler
Illinois SchoolBoard President
Jeff Weissglass
NOVO FoundationRobert Sherman
(formerly)
The SchottFoundation
John Jackson
DC Public SchoolsVice Principal
Dwight Davis
City Neighbors Foundation
Bobbi Macdonald
PassageWorksMark Wilding
SuperintendentCobb County, GA
Michael HinojosaKnowledgeWorks
Judy Peppler
EducationConsultant & Writer
Sam Chaltain
Education Reimagined
OUR PURPOSE is to accelerate the growth and impact of the learner-centered education movement in the United States by:
• Finding and encouraging learner-centered pioneers;
• Bringing diverse movement pioneers together; and
• Sharing the possibility of learner-centered education.
What strikes you about the list we just created?
What do you notice about our list?
TABLE CONVERSATION
What are the assumptions about school, learning, and learners that form the current design
of the American school?
TABLE CONVERSATION
Root-word “RE” means to “go back” or “do again.” Words like revisit, revise, review, reallocate, rebrand, renew, report, and reform.
Suggests not a complete “do-over” but to go back and try again—to tweak, adjust, adapt, or fix.
Reform:• make changes in order to improve it.• the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt,
unsatisfactory, etc.:• to put an end to (an evil) by enforcing or introducing a
better method or course of action
Reform
Root-word “TRANS” means to means to “go across.” Like transatlantic, transition, transfer, transport, transact.
Suggests not “going back” but moving forward to something new—note the emphasis isn’t on the “how” or the inputs, but on the end game.
Transform:• changes in character or condition;• to make a thorough or dramatic change in the form,
appearance, or character of;• changing the characteristics so as to change the use
or purpose.
Transform
What thoughts and ideas resonate with you?
What causes dissonance? What questions do you have?
TABLE CONVERSATION
“School” is how we currently imagine it.
“It” is failing so we need to “fix” it.
We do more of the same and focus on the inputs.
The original function of the modern public school
remains unchanged: to sort and select and
differentiate students along an assumed “average”
based on the belief that intelligence is fixed.
School Reform
Industrial Model of Schools Created
Everything is designed to give every child access to the same education. Differences between students show up as problems for the system. Students who excel are deemed smart.
Reform Movement Seeks to go from providing the same access to providing the same results to every child.
“21st Century Student Outcomes Movement” Seeks to update what results are considered satisfactory.
The paradigm shiftThe paradigm shiftASPECT CURRENT PARADIGM LEARNER-CENTERED PARADIGM
World View Industrial Age Networked Age
Frame of Reference
Factories and Assembly Lines
Networks and Lateral Connections
Model
SCHOOL-CENTRIC
All components of the system are designed for efficiency of
education delivery in the context of standardized
schools.
LEARNER-CENTRIC
All components are designed for the education experience to be adaptable to the needs and strengths of each learner and support the highest outcomes
for each and every learner.
Education Challenge
Move all children from 1st grade to 12th grade
successfully
Enable each unique child to learn successfully and be
lifelong learners
The paradigm shiftThe paradigm shiftASPECT CURRENT PARADIGM LEARNER-CENTERED PARADIGM
World View Industrial Age Networked Age
Frame of Reference
Factories and Assembly Lines
Networks and Lateral Connections
Model
SCHOOL-CENTRIC
All components of the system are designed for efficiency of
education delivery in the context of standardized
schools.
LEARNER-CENTRIC
All components are designed for the education experience to be adaptable to the needs and strengths of each learner and support the highest outcomes
for each and every learner.
Education Challenge
Move all children from 1st grade to 12th grade
successfully
Enable each unique child to learn successfully and be
lifelong learners
Learner-Centered Education
Competency-based
Personalized, Relevant & Contextualized
Learner Agency
Socially Embedded
Open-Walled
Knowledge,Skills, andDispositions
OUTCOMES
FIVE INTERRELATED ELEMENTS
Learner-Centered Education
Competency-based
Personalized, Relevant & Contextualized
Learner Agency
Socially Embedded
Open-Walled
Knowledge,Skills, andDispositions
OUTCOMES
FIVE INTERRELATED ELEMENTS
Share your reactions.What are you wondering about?
What resonates with you?Where is there dissonance for you?
TABLE CONVERSATION
OTHER PIONEERING EFFORTS & ENVIRONMENTS
ReSchool Colorado, COLRNG, nine cities
Taylor County Schools, KYLindsey Unified SD, CA
This is an idea whose time has come.We are looking for the pioneers.
Are you one?
Contact Us!www.education-reimagined.org